By Grace Hassler and Grant Jensen Est. Read Time: 7 minutes Backyard Bounty: A top contributor to the Homegrown National Park Biodiversity Map™. Learn why native landscaping is not only sound from an ecological perspective, but from a business perspective as well. Native landscapers have so much opportunity to become community influencers! Also find options for […]
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Who says native plants can’t be used in formal gardening?! Let’s hear a 🙌 for longtime HNP supporter, Lynn O’Shaughnessy in Howell, Michigan who put her incredible project on the HNP Biodiversity Map. Besides the ground prep, Lynn completed this entire project herself. “The best part of this whole journey was to learn how powerful
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Thanks to WDTN in Ohio for featuring the native habitat of Brandon Hough, our Executive Director! https://homegrownnationalpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Brandon-Hough-News-Story-Landscape.mp4 “It used to be all grass just three years ago. It’s now — it’s native prairie for all the native wildflowers and native grasses that would have been in Ohio before,” says Brandon Hough, as he looks over
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Congratulations to longtime HNP supporter Christian Cooper, who won the award for Outstanding Daytime Personality for hosting the National Geographic Wild series, “Extraordinary Birder”. What an extraordinary achievement for an extraordinary human! Container Gardening with Keystone Native Plants You might recognize Christian from our features about his impressive rooftop garden in New York. This native container
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It really works! For years now, I have been claiming that restoration works, that nature is wonderfully resilient, and that, with a little help, she can rebuild biodiversity throughout human-dominated landscapes whenever she is given half a chance. Tallamy Residence What has happened on the Tallamy property in southeast Pennsylvania over the past two decades
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By Grace Hassler and Grant Jensen Est. Read Time: 8 minutes Let’s be clear: wherever possible, Homegrown National Park™ encourages everyone to shrink the lawn and plant the most productive plants (keystone flowering plants or keystone trees and shrubs). We also understand that in order for everyone to participate in the native planting movement, their yards
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This offer has ended. Stay tuned for the next collaboration! We’ve partnered with the very talented Melissa Bryant for our first limited edition t-shirt! (available in 4 colors) Her unique hand-drawn artwork captures the beauty of a selection of container-friendly keystone plants. It contains a single species of flowering plant for each in the 10
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Early spring bloomers to support pollinators! Try adding some of these plants that are native to your area. Native spring ephemerals are a group of plants that emerge in early spring in many temperate areas. These plants are adapted to quickly complete their growth cycle during the short period between winter’s end and the time
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The AskScience subreddit hosted a special native plants session with key members of the HNP team. Over 130 questions were answered, and below are some of the top-voted answers. Dig deeper and view the post with all questions here. Q: RIPEOTCDXVII’m from a prairie state, and there’s a lot of back-and-forth in restoration circles on
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Get inspired by the native planting projects below! Don’t want your hometown to get left behind? Find action steps to get involved at the end of this post. By Grace Hassler and Grant Jensen Est. Read Time: 13 minutes We’re spotlighting communities nationwide, from dynamic large cities to charming small towns, that are pioneers in
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